Saturday, May 07, 2005

6000 Fostoria To-day

Before the War, Bell Gardens was known as “Billy Goat Acres,” due to the large number of Okies that’d settled there. The goats and Okies have disappeared into the ether, but the area maintains a certain midcentury quality, especially as—in contrast to this “graying of America” business—the median age of the 45,000 souls who inhabit Bell Gardens is twenty-three.